ohaya wrote:> Brian K wrote:> > Jim,> > > > If the Dell method doesn't work you could install Win7 to another computer,> > image the partition and use TBIDTool to restore the image to your Dell> > laptop.> > > Hi,> > That's too funny !!> > What you suggested was what I was thinking of before going to bed last night, and I> just started an image on another machine I have to do that, then saw your post.> > But, I have an IFL CD I just created the other day. Should that be able to do a> restore from an image that was made by BING (not BIBM)?> > Jim

Well, that didn't work. Neither the old or new IFL would recognize the old BING .IMG files, so I'm re-backing up using the new IFL.

ohaya wrote:> ohaya wrote:> > Brian K wrote:> > > Jim,> > > > > > If the Dell method doesn't work you could install Win7 to another computer,> > > image the partition and use TBIDTool to restore the image to your Dell> > > laptop.> > > > > > Hi,> > > > That's too funny !!> > > > What you suggested was what I was thinking of before going to bed last night,> and I> > just started an image on another machine I have to do that, then saw your post.> > > > But, I have an IFL CD I just created the other day. Should that be able to do a> > restore from an image that was made by BING (not BIBM)?> > > > Jim> > > Well, that didn't work. Neither the old or new IFL would recognize the old BING .IMG> files, so I'm re-backing up using the new IFL.

Got the image from another system using new IFL and was to restore to the partition I had setup on the M7510, but when I try to boot that partition on the M7510, it blue screens ...

It wouldn't even let me do a safe boot... it bluescreened there also, so I'm trying a startup repair.

I gave up on the copying an image from one machine to the Dell, and instead, I was able to Nlite and a USB stick with the Windows 7 installation files on it, and inject the USB 3.0 drivers from the Dell website.

Now, when I boot to the USB stick, I can get past the "driver needed" point!!

Ok, that was the good news...

But the bad news is when I click "Install now" and it shows the table with the eligible partitions, it is only show the hard drive (Drive 0) AND worst yet, it is showing the whole 931GB as "unallocated" !!

Is it possible that I also need Dell-specific drivers for the HARD DRIVE *AND* the M.2 SSD?

ohaya wrote:> and if I'm reading that correctly, it sounds like Dell doesn't support the> NVM SSD that they put into the M7510 under Windows 7?

SSDs which plug into an "NVMe" socket appear on the "NVMe" data bus, and not on the SATA data bus (that might be a simplification, but is near enough). So you need a driver specifically for the NVMe data bus. If Dell do not provide one for Windows 7, you could try the one for Windows 10, or look on the website of the SSD manufacturer to see if they provide one. If neither of those work, you will not be able to use Windows 7 installed on the SSD, but you should be able to continue to use Windows 7 installed on the HDD.

By the way, when you installed Windows 7 on the HDD, did you follow the advice in the following post; if you did not, it is possible that whatever other data was on the HDD has now been overwritten: